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I would like to say that the fish took off, pulling drag and screaming line from my reel. Or that he headed for the bottom, pumping and head shaking, as he pushed through the water column with his powerful tail. That kind of situation is not far off. Actually, we ought to start seeing big …
I thought long and hard about where to fish today. I consulted all available resources, hoping to glean some tidbit of information that would lead me to that first big batch of migratory stripers. After spending 15 minutes surveying a particular estuary using Google Earth, I discovered a hidden access point that would drop me …
Compared with my previous 28 years on this planet, this spring has been quite different. There have not been many warm days and as a result the April striper bite has been on the slow side. I hoped to change that today as I ventured deep into the backwaters of Buzzard’s Bay. My idea was …
This early in the season I find it incredibly easy to rise from bed, in the dark, before our planet rotates enough for the sun’s rays to shine down on our corner of the hemisphere. Right now is a very exciting time to be fishing on Cape Cod, because with each passing moment the landscape …
The tide was higher, much higher than I have ever seen at this particular spot. I imagined that river herring would be using the tide to enter into the herring run which existed just upstream of my position. Perhaps an early arrival striped bass or two had also decided to ride the tide into this …
The bass are back! I am very happy to report that our striped friends are back on Cape Cod. It’s been a long cold winter, but rest assured, the fish are here and more are on the way. In this report I catch my first striped bass of 2014, and share with you ideas for …
Cold, wet, windy and rainy best described the conditions as I stepped foot onto the beach. I knew the odds of catching my first striper of the season on such a cold and raw day were slim, but I could not help but at least give it a try. I had already caught stripers by …
I was fishing the first part of the incoming tide, which I definitely prefer at this location. The area can be challenging to fish at high tide because water floods through the entire marsh. At high tide I need a really long cast to reach fishy territory, which isn’t possible when I am using my …
The mid-morning sun felt incredible. Spring is most certainly here on Cape Cod! Cormorants were diving in front of me and a sea gull was cracking open a mussel behind me. There was plenty of life around and the atmosphere even felt fishy. I had once again decided to fish Buzzard’s Bay, which has been …
Fishing Buzzard’s Bay is a great idea right now, because striped bass often show up in Buzzard’s Bay before they show up in other areas of the Cape. In recent years my first striper of the season has been caught in Buzzard’s Bay. In this trip I fished numerous locales throughout Buzzard’s Bay, in search …
Despite being so far into the upper reaches of this estuary, there was still a fantastic chance that I would find stripers. Hungry spring stripers have no problem following River Herring way back into estuaries, virtually into freshwater. Conditions were picture perfect and there was bait around. I had a good feeling as I continued …
Earlier this week I was able to squeeze in another early-spring Cape Cod fishing adventure. Stripers could arrive any day now on Cape Cod and I will admit that I am pretty excited. During this trip I hoped I would stumble across one of those very rare keeper-size holdover striped bass that I have been …
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